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sill
/sɪl/
noun 7adj 1name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
same
VERB + SILL
wiped
SILL + NOUN
cup, door, paper, window
PREP.
along, on, with
Definitions
noun
1
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
2
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
3
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […].
The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.
4
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
5
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
the nasal sill
noun
1
A young herring.
noun
1
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
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She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
Wiktionary02
Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […].
Wiktionary03
The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.
Wiktionary04
Some birds alighted on the window sill.
Tatoeba · #27816805
A large bird landed on the window sill.
Tatoeba · #68132506
The threshold of a door is akin to the sill of a window, but it is exactly the same as the sill of a door.
Tatoeba · #1415701Usage Notes
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